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Originally Posted by supernova1965
That is my point but if we took the opposite position we would get nowhere I never said it was proof. But it is a lot closer to saying it does exist than saying it doesn't. I don't think that anyone can honestly say that there isn't more circumstantial evidence for life than circumstantial evidence for it not existing at some stage we have to say the balance is in favour of it being there somewhere while this is not proof it makes it more likely than not. That is my point it is a driving force while the view that it may not exist is a regressive force
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With proofs you can's say "likely" or "not likely".
We have no proof that life exist outside Earth and that is how it is.
Of course, we have no proof for the opposite either.
In other words, we don't know... yet.
Having said that, I didn't mean we should stop searching... on the contrary. But we have to be aware always, that indication for something to exist is not a proof of existence.. never was and never will be.